Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — May 23, 2022. South Asia is not only baking in a record-setting heat wave. Entering the third month of extreme temperatures, people in Pakistan are confronting yet another calamity linked to an unforgiving climate: a deadly cholera outbreak.

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MAY 27, 2022

Here we are again, on the cusp of another hurricane season. June 1 is the official start, but for the past 7 years the first named storm (and sometimes the second) formed before that date. This year broke the streak, and that is a good thing. Still, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 24, and the Colorado State University (CSU) forecast , released on April 7, predict a season with above-normal activity— for the seventh consecutive year.

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Yale E360

MAY 25, 2022

Carbon offsets have been criticized for failing to provide carbon savings and ignoring the needs of local communities. But in Tanzania, hunter-gatherer tribes are earning a good return for their carbon credits and protecting their forests from poachers and encroaching agriculture. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 23, 2022

Demand for plastic packaging recycling continues to increase with many industries making advancements regarding the practice. The post Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Packaging Demand Increases appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

The Rundown. A House committee followed its Senate counterpart and endorsed a key bill to authorize Army Corps water projects. An early-season forecast indicates a moderate harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie this summer. A GAO report recommends better federal agency coordination to help Alaska Native villages address environmental change. An inspector general’s investigation clears a former Trump administration official of lobbying rules violations regarding a California water district.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

If you’re in the market for an electric car, then you are probably also in the market for an electric car charger. A major part of your electric car-buying research is figuring out what your refueling (which is to say charging) routine will be. With the ability to charge at home, at work, and in public places, electric cars have changed the car refueling paradigm completely for the better.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 23, 2022

In-house counsel overwhelmingly take a leadership role in driving their companies’ ESG strategy, according to Morrison Foerster’s “GCs and ESG” survey. The post In-House Counsel Takes a Leadership Role in Driving Companies’ ESG Strategies appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Australia has had a change of government. The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Australia was recently ranked last out of sixty countries in climate policy.The victorious Labor candidate told his supporters, “Together we can end the climate wars. Together we can take advantage of the opportunity for Australia to be a renewable energy superpower.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

This week is the culmination of major oil and gas companies’ annual general meetings, also known as annual shareholder meetings. As in previous years, climate-related shareholder proposals are on the agenda for Shell , ExxonMobil and Chevron , and climate advocates are urging major investors, including BlackRock , to vote for climate action. Two key things have changed since last year: 1) Evidence has piled up that sharp cuts in fossil fuels are needed to keep the goals of the Paris climate agre

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Yale E360

MAY 24, 2022

A study in northern Sweden found that melting permafrost released one tenth as much methane as expected, suggesting emissions from thawing Arctic tundra could be less than previously feared. Read more on E360 ?.

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Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers heatwaves in India, dam removal across Europe, and a groundwater conservation proposal in Arizona. . Transcript. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. In India, grueling pre-monsoon heat continues to wreak havoc, pushing air temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Legal Planet

MAY 26, 2022

There is continuing conservative support for climate action. Not so much here, of course, but in the UK. The British government is firmly in the grip of the Conservative Party. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is no Donald Trump, but he does have at least a whiff of Trumpiness about him. Like the GOP, the Tories have moved somewhat away from their traditional constituencies to embrace working class voters on an anti-internationalist platform.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 24, 2022

Rolls-Royce is committed to designing products that be compatible with net-zero operation by 2030. It says that all of its products will be compatible with carbon neutrality by 2050 -- an expensive goal but one that will create value. The post Rolls-Royce Says Carbon-Reduction Programs Are Costly But Create Business Opportunities appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement. The ruling was a landmark for climate litigation, demonstrating the potential power of the courts to help ensure a just climate future.

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Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital

As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Water’s True Cost The quality of Michigan’s water infrastructure and the consequences of failure, while still real and apparent, are no longer being ignored. Photos by J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue — May 23, 2022. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging. In some communities, this means water bills that residents can’t afford or water that’s unsafe to drink.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

In West Virginia v. EPA , the Supreme Court is reviewing Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan (CPP) itself no longer has any practical relevance, but there’s every reason to predict the Court will strike it down anyway. The ruling will also restrict EPA’s future options. The big question is what the Biden Administration should do next.

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Yale E360

MAY 23, 2022

The low-lying island nation of the Maldives is looking to alleviate a shortage of land and help protect against rising seas with a new land reclamation project. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

September 2022 will mark five years since the destruction and misery caused by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, and the National Weather Service is forecasting a very active and dangerous hurricane season for 2022. To understand lessons in resilience learned from the hurricane and the response from community-based organizations, I talked at length with Tania Rosario Méndez , Executive Director of Taller Salud , a grassroots organization based in Loíza, Puerto Rico.

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Law and Environment

MAY 27, 2022

On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution crisis.” As a first step, the CA AG issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil, “a major source of global plastic pollution, seeking information relating to the company’s role in deceiving the public.

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Physics World

MAY 25, 2022

Portable MRI (pMRI), a new type of very low-field MRI scanner that does not require dedicated shielding, can effectively diagnose stroke and detect blood clots in the brain as small as 4 mm in size. In a study of 50 patients with ischaemic stroke treated at Yale New Haven Hospital , intracranial imaging with pMRI detected ischaemic infarcts in 90% of patients.

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Yale E360

MAY 27, 2022

An ancient cypress in southern Chile could be more than 5,000 years old, making it the world's most aged tree, new research finds. Read more on E360 ?.

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MAY 26, 2022

En septiembre de 2022 se cumplirán cinco años de la destrucción y miseria causada por el Huracán María en Puerto Rico, y el Servicio Nacional de Meteorología pronostica que la temporada de huracanes de este año será muy activa y peligrosa. Para entender un poco lo que se aprendió sobre resiliencia de cara al huracán y la respuesta de las comunidades, recientemente hablé un buen rato con Tania Rosario Méndez , Directora Ejecutiva de Taller Salud , una organización sin fines de lucro con base en L

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Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

Cutting only CO2 emissions, but failing to rein in methane, HFCs and soot, will speed global warming in the coming decades and only slow it later this century. By Phil McKenna Climate policies that rely on decarbonization alone are not enough to hold atmospheric warming below 2 degrees Celsius and, rather than curbing climate change, would fuel additional warming in the near term, a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes.

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Physics World

MAY 24, 2022

New physics, in the form of a “fifth force”, could be responsible for the odd and unexplained arrangement of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and other large galaxies – according to new research done it the UK. The new force could also shed light on the nature of dark matter, a mysterious substance that accounts for about 85% of the matter in the universe.

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MAY 24, 2022

The High Potential Individual visa is intended to attract graduates from around the world to work in the UK, but its criteria excludes anyone who studied at a university in Africa

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The Applied Ecologist

MAY 26, 2022

A new paper led by Csaba Tölgyesi from the University of Szeged, Hungary, shows that drainage canals can be harnessed for biodiversity conservation in desiccated, heavily transformed regions by reconciling the interests of opposing stakeholders. Drainage and subsequent land cultivation have been a major threat to global wetland ecosystems for centuries.

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National Law Center

MAY 24, 2022

When you walk through a grocery store, you will likely see certain food labeling claims such as “healthy”, “low in sugar”, The post The Legality of Food Labeling Claims: FDA’s Regulations appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Physics World

MAY 26, 2022

Cause-and-effect explanations like “catnip causes cats to be happy”, “jokes cause laughter” and “exciting research causes Physics World articles” are a useful way to organize knowledge about the world. The mathematics of cause-and-effect underpin everything from epidemiology to quantum physics. In the quantum world, however, the link between cause and effect is not so straightforward.

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New Scientist

MAY 23, 2022

Researchers tracked more than 4000 people at risk of developing Crohn’s disease and found those who lived with a dog between ages 5 and 15 were 40 per cent less likely to develop the disease

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MAY 27, 2022

On May 26, Pennsylvania Envirothon announced the winner of the statewide competition is Penncrest High School Team from Delaware County with a score of 556.3 who will represent Pennsylvania in the International Envirothon July 24-30 at Miami University of Ohio. Rounding out the list of top 10 winners are-- -- Second Place – North East School District, Erie County , with a score of 525.2; -- Third Place – Bangor Area HS, Northampton County , with a score of 507; -- Fourth Place – Pleasant Valley

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 26, 2022

by Joachim Seel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Bentham Paulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory America’s electric power system is undergoing radical change as it transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy. While the first decade of the 2000s saw huge growth in natural gas generation, and the 2010s were … Continue reading Meet the power plant of the future: Solar + battery hybrids are poised for explosive growth.

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Physics World

MAY 25, 2022

Physicists in the Netherlands have shown for the first time that quantum information can be reliably teleported between network nodes that are not directly connected to each other. According to the researchers, who created the world’s first three-node quantum network at QuTech (a collaboration between the Delft University of Technology and TNO) in 2021, the latest work marks a further step towards a scalable quantum Internet.

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New Scientist

MAY 24, 2022

Cars controlled by AI drive smoothly and more efficiently, and a computer model suggests the effect spreads to nearby drivers too

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